A Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows the debtor to retain
certain exempt property, but the debtor’s remaining
property is gathered and sold by a trustee from which
creditors will receive payment. It may also be used by
businesses which wish to terminate their business.
A Chapter 13 bankruptcy enables debtors, through
court supervision and protection, to propose and
carry out a repayment plan under which creditors are
paid, in full or in part, in installments over a three-year
period. During that time, debtors are prohibited from
starting or continuing collection efforts.
The following bankruptcies declared by Calhoun
County residents were recorded by U.S. Bankruptcy
Court Northern District of Alabama last week:

The material inside the Monday Record is recorded by The Anniston Star
from various institutions and government offices.
The public records are published as they appeared on the documents
obtained by the newspaper.
Direct questions and comments about Monday Record to Isaac Godwin
at jgodwin@jsu.edu.

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The following property crimes
were reported to the Anniston
Police Department during the
seven-day period ending at 7 a.m.
Thursday.

restaurant inspections
Here are food service establishments
recently inspected by the Calhoun County
Health Department, along with scores. A
score of 100 indicates the inspector found
no deficiencies. Potentially hazardous deficiencies (four- or five-point demerit items)
are noted. These must be corrected immediately and inspectors say they are often
corrected while the inspection is underway. Restaurants earning below 70 must
raise their scores within seven days or face
closure.

Guard killed in Mississippi
prison riot, others injured
Associated Press
NATCHEZ, Miss. — A
guard at a southwest Mississippi prison died Sunday
and several other employees were injured during
a disturbance involving
hundreds of inmates that
continued into the evening,
authorities and the prison’s
operator said.
Emily Ham, a spokeswoman for the Adams
County Sheriff ’s Office,
confirmed Sunday evening
that the guard died while
being transported to a hospital. She said Corrections
Corp. of America, the prison’s private operator, was
working Sunday night with
law-enforcement authorities to bring the disturbance
under control.
CCA said in a news
release that the disturbance
began at around 2:40 p.m.
The news release said five
employees were transported to a local hospital
for treatment of injuries
and one was taken offsite.
It said “the disturbance is
contained within the secure
perimeter of the facility, with no threat to public

Smoke rises above Adams County Correctional
Center Sunday in Natchez, Miss., during an inmate
disturbance. A guard at the southwest Mississippi
prison died and several other employees were
injured.
safety.”
“Efforts by facility staff
State and local law- and law enforcement offienforcement officers were cials to quell the incident
providing outside perimeter are ongoing,” Owens said in
security, the news release an email late Sunday.
said.
Ham said no inmates
The company said the had escaped the facility.
cause of disturbance is
Adams County Sheriff
pending investigation. The Chuck Mayfield told the
2,567-bed prison houses Natchez Democrat that
adult male criminal aliens agencies were working to
for the Federal Bureau of release eight staffers who
Prisons, the news release were still inside. He said they
said.
knew where some of them
CCA spokesman Steve were and didn’t believe
Owen confirmed in an any more were injured. Fifemail “there has been one teen employees were freed
employee death” but he at once by opening a fence
said he could not provide and protecting the route
more details immediately.
with guns, he said.

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voters don’t approve of the amendment,
every state agency would have to face proportional budget cuts.
“Of course if they decide that they
don’t want to do it that way, then we’ll
have to come back in special session and
decide what we’re going to do,” Bentley
said. “But we’d rather do this rather than
raising taxes.”
Some politicians and political observers say Alabama should cut whatever isn’t
necessary and work with the revenue it
has instead of taking from other sources.
“I would like to see us as a body sit
down and figure out what are essential
primary needs of government and fund
those fully and whatever falls below that
line fund as we can,” said Sen. Paul Buss-

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from state Rep. Barbara Boyd. Many of
the books are either donated or bought
with grant funding. The library opened a
children’s room in December 2010 due to
the volunteer efforts of the Junior League
of Anniston-Calhoun County. The league
exists to promote volunteerism and develop the potential of its members through
community projects.
Charles Brooks, volunteer athletics
director for the Hobson City youth program, took several children to the library
Friday, a customary practice of his for the
past year.
“They come and join the library … they

man, R-Cullman.
Bussman worried that there was no
provision that would require the money
borrowed from the trust fund be paid
back. He said he would like to see any
payments the state government gets from
the BP oil spill to go toward refunding the
Alabama Trust Fund.
Former Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim James said the money in the
trust fund should be used for its intended
purpose — to help future generations.
“There’s not much difference between
the Alabama politicians and your Greek
politicians,” James said, referring to the
European country’s debt crisis. “Same politicians, just different continent. Instead of
looking adversity in the eye, just robbing
future generations.”
James said politicians should make the
tough cuts to put the budget in line with
the money the state actually has.

use the reading program here,” Brooks
said. “I try to foster education as much as
I can.”
Brooks said the town’s library meant
much to him and other town residents.
“Oh definitely, this place is a blessing,”
he said.
The library will be offering new programs during the summer, Ross said, to
include additional reading programs, a
puppet show and a poetry class. Also, due
to the hiring of an assistant, the library
will be able to open five days a week, up
from three, Ross said.
For more information about the library
or about summer events, call 256-8317069.
Staff writer Patrick McCreless: 256-2353561. On Twitter @PMcCreless_Star

WASHINGTON — Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney
and his party raised a sizable
$40 million last month from
donors who want him to replace
President Barack Obama. But
even as Romney solidifies his
position as the eventual GOP
nominee, many supporters
who backed his primary election challengers have not yet
come to his aid.
An Associated Press review
of campaign finance data found
that only a few hundred donors
who contributed to candidates
like Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum changed course and
gave to Romney’s campaign or
the Republican Party in April.
That’s as GOP stalwarts and
some former rivals have called
on supporters to rally around
Romney’s White House run.
Romney is hardly hurting
for cash, having reported more
than $61 million in the bank by
the end of April. But financial
reports released Sunday reveal
a potential struggle for Romney
in persuading his party’s more

conservative donors to open
their wallets for him, although
there are still more than five
months until Election Day.
Out of more than 50,000
donors who gave to other GOP
candidates like Gingrich, Santorum and Texas Gov. Rick
Perry since the start of the
nomination race, fewer than
600 appeared to write checks
to Romney in April, the AP’s
review of Federal Election Commission reports found. Roughly
the same number contributed
to the Republican National
Committee, which is now helping Romney’s campaign.
Romney has been aggressively courting conservatives,
speaking out recently against
China’s “one-child policy” and
addressing graduates at the
evangelical Liberty University.
Last month, Romney told the
website Breitbart.com that the
news media were involved in
a “vast left-wing conspiracy to
work together to put out their
message and to attack me.”
Wealthy donors like former Santorum supporter Foster Friess are now supporting
Romney, realizing that his siz-

able delegate count and financial strength all but guarantee
his nomination this summer.
Other eventual Romney donors
had already given early to his
rivals, partly to support a spirited debate during the primary
season.
Willis J. Johnson, founder of
auto dealer Copart USA, contributed to Perry and Gingrich
last year because he personally liked Perry and admired
Gingrich’s insistence on quizzing Romney during debates.
“I think this administration is
trying to take money away from
small businesses,” Johnson
said, in part through tax hikes.
Other conservatives, however, have been warier. One blog
post last week on the conservative RedState.com, referring
to Romney’s Liberty speech,
asked: “Mr. Romney said that
marriage is between one man
and one woman. He got deafening applause. But where was
he when it mattered?”
About a quarter of Romney April-turnaround donors
gave checks of $2,500 or more,
including amounts up to the
maximum $30,800 legally

allowed to a political party. In
March — just before Romney
started raising general election
cash — about 300 former Santorum and Gingrich supporters contributed to the former
Massachusetts governor’s campaign.
Santorum dropped out of
the race in April and Gingrich
in May, even though Romney’s momentum was growing
before then. A report detailing
the contributions of Romney’s
joint-fundraising committee is
due out this summer.
A Romney spokeswoman
did not immediately respond
to requests seeking comment
late Sunday.
The AP analyzed federal
contributions since January
2011, cross-matching donors’
names and addresses with
those on Romney’s or the GOP’s
April reports. Those filings, per
federal election requirements,
exclude donors who gave fewer
than $200 per candidate each
election — although most of
Romney’s campaign contributions ($8.9 million) came from
donors who gave $200 or more.

Mary Altaffer/Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Mitt
Romney speaks at a campaign stop
Friday in Hillsborough, N.H. A review
of campaign finance data found that
only a few hundred donors who supported Romney’s primary opponents
are lending financial support to the
likely Republican nominee so far.